Jazz
Jazz is a genre of music founded by African Americans that grew from ragtime bands and adopt the ragtime form of syncopations.
Characteristics of Jazz
Genres of Jazz
Traditional Jazz
Bepop
Free Jazz
Cool Jazz
Jazz Fusion
Modal Jazz
Young Lions
Jazz Social Impact
Jazz played a major role in the commodification of black music. The Harlem Renaissance was a movement that encouraged black creativity in the arts. Jazz music helped integrate spaces because white people wanted to listen to jazz music that was played in black nightclubs. Jazz musicians made started the trend of black people making money from their own music. Jazz also heavily influenced the army.
Famous Artist
Charlie Parker
Louis Armstrong
Pharoah Sanders
Wynton Marsalis
Miles Davis
Theloneous Monk
Oscar Peterson
Art Blakey
Ornette Coleman
Sun Ra
Dizzy Gillespie
Bud Powell
Max Roach
Coleman Hawkins
John Coltrane
Dexter Gordon
Sarah Vaughn
Mary Lou Williams
Cecil Taylor
Joe Jennings
Tony WIlliams
Tia Fuller
George Benson
Grover Washington Jr.
Marcus Miller
Esperanza Spaulding
Freddie Hubbard
Lenny White
Sonny Rollins
Lee Morgan
